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When a colleague recommended a book from 37singals I was skeptical, to say the least, not because it is a bad company, but I do kind of find them very cocky and also my first impression was "Isn't that going to be a something about Ruby?". But I gave it a try and liked it enough to write a few good words about it.So what is this book about? In my opinion, it's about agile software development at its core and to quote the authors "Getting Real" is a book about:
The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application.
When I started reading it became obvious right away that this book is a great collection of short stories, tips, quotes and lessons from various companies and software developers and not just 37signals, although it had some very good ones from them also. In some places, the authors were direct about what is their standing, sometimes even cocky but definitely in a really good way.

It is always tempting to add custom attributes in HTML so that you can use the data stored there to do X. But if you do that there is no way of knowing if your HTML attribute will not be overridden in the future and used for something else and additionally you will not be writing valid HTML markup that can pass HTML 5 validator and with that you can create some very bad side effects. That is why there is a spec in HTML 5 called custom data attributes that enable number of useful features.

You may go around and read the specs, but the basic idea is very simple, you can add any attribute that starts with "data-" and that attribute will be treated as non-visible data for that attribute. By non-visible I mean that it is not something that gets rendered to the client so it does not affect the layout or style of the page, but it is there in the HTML so in no way this is private.
So let's get right into it, the following snippet is a valid HTML5 markup

Atlassian uses something called AUI or Atlassian User Interface that is basically a set of reusable, cross-browser
tested UI components (markup, CSS and Javascript) that are based on jQuery and jQueryUI. They are used in most of Atlassian products like JIRA an Confluence.
Common trick for saving some meta-data about the web app and the currently logged in user is used.
<meta name="ajs-context-path" content="/wiki">
<meta name="ajs-version-number" content="3.6.0">
<meta name="ajs-build-number" content="XXX">
<meta name="ajs-remote-user" content="someusername">
<meta name="ajs-static-resource-url-prefix" content="/confluence/s/en/2155/5/_">
There are a few utility functions that can be useful:AJS.Data.get("some key") ex.AJS.Data.get("remote-user")AJS.params.somekey ex. AJS.params.loggedInUser
and if you want to see list of all availab…

Nista se nece dogodite (NSND) or roughly translated into English - Nothing will happen is a geek/hackers unconference where people get together to share knowledge about pretty much anything, starting from programming and computer networks going to growing food on top of buildings and women's rights. The full list can be found on the flowing ether-pad http://piratepad.net/nsndstruga. This year the main event in Macedonia was in Struga and there were very cool talks. I missed some of them but so here are few that I can take a note of:Happy food production by Luca Pescatore(http://www.pescatoreluca.com)He talked about aquaponics, windows farming, deep water culture, compositing and basically how to do farming almost anywhere and not just that but also how to farm efficiency. His main idea was to encourage everyone to just try things out. One cool experiment that he did was creating a small farm on top of building.

Github has this great project hosted on ... GitHub. What so great about it? Well, it contains git-ignore files for various development environments and programming languages. This gives you a great starting point when creating a new project in any language and any environment.

So this is my starting git ignore on every new java project:
*target*
*.jar
*.war
*.ear
*.class
# eclipse specific git ignore
*.pydevproject
.project
.metadata
bin/**
tmp/**
tmp/**/*
*.tmp
*.bak
*.swp
*~.nib
local.properties
.classpath
.settings/
.loadpath
# Intellij
.idea/
*.iml
*.iws
# External tool builders
.externalToolBuilders/
# Locally stored "Eclipse launch configurations"
*.launch
It covers maven based projects with eclipse and using of combination local.properties for overriding other *.properties that I prefer. Additionally it removes all eclipse specific "settings" that I'm opposed to having them in version control since most of the time it makes no sense for them t…